The Bluestocking women's Pub- spring is sprunging and MN's name generator can do one!

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Welcome to the Bluestocking women's pub. Men are directed to the Staunch Ally just down the road. Otherwise all are welcome. Pull up a chair, give your order to the Wait Gerbil or the Gerbil behind the bar.

Don't forget to name change if you wish to.

I'm trying to post links to extending painting poles, but I keep getting 'unexpected error'.

My husband is just above average height for a man; I am just below average height for a woman. I do awkward tight corners and spaces under sinks, skirting boards etc. If anything needs painting above my head height I shrug and walk away - that's his problem.
(Not actually strictly true - I'll do door frames and doors to the very top, but I don't do the top sections of walls. His longer arms mean he doesn't need to move a ladder as often)
Same goes for most DIY - I do the stuff below my shoulder height and he does anything higher. It ends up as a pretty equal division in labour.

Nope, it does not want to post links to Screwfix and DIY.COM!
Have I uncovered an obscure MN rule?

Anyway, Hedgey - extending painting pole, they come in various lengths, but the taller, the more difficult to work with.
Amazon do them too of course. With added leprechaun

If you'd married a leprechaun, you'd have to do everything above skirting board level - good choice, Random😁

My late (and fairly unlamented) FIL from DH1 was a painter and decorator. He used to run a plank or planks from the landing to the top of a stepladder and go from there. All a bit Heath Robinson but he died of a heart attack nowhere near such a set up.

we had similar division of labour when we did some painting recently but I got off lightly because we decided the skirting boards didn’t need doing.

We had a decorator do the stairwell and some of the downstairs, he had lots of small ladders and planks to make himself stable platforms. We’d probably have done ourselves a mischief or two if we’d attempted it.

My DIY days are over. When we bought this house, it was vacant possession and we had to give two months' notice on our rented house. We gave the keys to the decorators who gave them to the carpet-layers.

I took a look about two weeks' in, and it was a pigsty. The day before the movers arrived we walked into an immaculate house, beautifully decorated and carpeted.

I think the capybara did it.

That's the answer, Myrtle - Hedgey needs to get Capability Capybara and her team in to do the stairwell. problem solved😄

Well i am 4ft 11 and 3/4 and my DH is 6ft so if i stood on his shoulders it still would not work, plus it might not be that stable given our age.

besides which i do not want to encourage any “fruitiness” in our relationship since that door is firmly shut.

so off to find them ladders boily mentioned.

I used to be responsible for most of the decorating in the Woley household, but I’m just not able any more, so we have to hire a decorator, if we want anything done.

We are thinking of redoing our bedroom - I want one wall of toile de jouey wallpaper, and the other three in a mid blue - but the wallpaper I want might be too expensive.

My father was a painter and decorator back in the 1950s and 60s, and that's how he dealt with stairwells too. It didn't seem to faze him at all and the results were always good.

Our trusty local P&D, to whom we outsource the really tricky stuff, also uses stepladders and planks.

I'm not sure I'd fancy cutting in with an extending pole. Not even with a brush on the end.

I do virtually all our P&D. DH began with more experience but I think I'm better at it than he is now.

How about abseiling gerbils?
Galatea has a good head for heights, as you can see from her work on the construction of The Real Bluestocking - under the watchful eye of Capability Capaybara.

If we fancy another cute mammal in our pub there is an adorable baby beaver here: https://x.com/itsme_urstruly/status/2036895520120332308?s=46

Have just made a tit of myself.

Thought I had an intruder. It was the milkman. He usually doesn't come this early.

I apologised to him, but I've got wobbly legs.

Wobbly legs aside, I'm impressed that you still have a milkman!

You've reminded me, I was contemplating using Mr Magpie's next overseas trip to decorate the bathroom. We've never been able to agree on a colour for it, so the only way it's getting decorated is as a fait accompli.

I have one as well, lots of people round here do. The dairy is 4 miles up the road.

I had a milkman a long time ago. <sighs at happy memories of young love>

Anyway, moving on...

Who signed me up to Gillian's early morning fitness class?

I have a complaint about the sleep gerbils. It was all going well, drifted off in good time. Woke up and was just taking a moment before rising when one of them must have coshed me!

Re. gerbils with younique names, there's Genitalia who is a sous chef in the kitchen. Everyone calls her Muffy.

While they may be good at outside walls if there’s a sturdy chimney stack to attach the ropes to, abseiling isn’t feasible in a stairwell is it?

I’ve just noticed the time of this post - wtf? That’s very late in my book, rather than early. And if your weather is like ours any bottles left on the doorstep since the small hours would be frozen

Her parents were so younique that it's actually spelt Gynàtalya.

She prefers Muffy.

And who gave Gillian that bloody drum?It's audible from here.

I'm sorry to hear that WAW, it sounds like you got quite a fright, hope the wobblyness has settled down after a cuppa or three
I'm sure you didn't really make a tit of yourself, but if you did, I hope it was a great tit😄

Feasible? Feasible? FEASIBLE??
Are you applying common sense and logic to something in the Bluestocking??
Wash your mouth out!
Or in your case, ErrolTheDragon, I suppose that would be 'steam clean your mouth out'🔥